Houston/Peach County Scanning Issue

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maxxmanic

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I am having difficulty scanning Houston/Peach County P25 system. Macon/Bibb comes in loud and clear. I was able to scan them a few weeks ago (not a regular listener) but complete silence now. I have a Uniden BCD996T and used bcTool to download and program it with the freqs from RR. Did Houston/Peach change something? Thanks for any help!
 

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Between Byron and Centerville. I have a Byron address in Houston County. I live off Hwy 41 near White Road.
 

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BTW - I just updated the firmware, but it didn't help. It is almost like Houston/Peach P25 is dead. I do get Peach Sheriff on the old system....
 

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I work on base, and noticed the same thing about 2 months ago... I used to hear them well and then the signals fell off the face of the earth. Maybe they changed frequency's or something.
 

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And I live near Dunbar/Carl Vinson but I have no problem there or while mobile. I did change to an 800 MHz antenna.

I have used the antenna that came with it and an 800mhz mobile antenna. With both I pick up Macon/Bibb loud and clear. I haven't messed with the radio since it was working last, except to load the new firmware. It is just very strange to me.
 

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I just drove up I-75 to KY and back down to FL in the last two weeks and the Houston/Peach system sounded very good to me on my 396 with a mag-mount older cell phone type antenna. I have old programming that I did over 9 months ago so nothing appears to have changed as far as I can tell.

Mark Mc.
 

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I just drove up I-75 to KY and back down to FL in the last two weeks and the Houston/Peach system sounded very good to me on my 396 with a mag-mount older cell phone type antenna. I have old programming that I did over 9 months ago so nothing appears to have changed as far as I can tell.

Mark Mc.

Interesting. I am a novice radio scanner, but it used to work just fine. I turned it on the other day and heard zip from Houston County. I haven't changed any setting that I know of, but is there anything I should check. I even tried a new site with only the control freq and that didn't work either.
 

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Your only shot is the Elberta tower. It's still working on this side of town, in front of the base off 247. They rebanded earlier this year so check again.
 

maxxmanic

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Working again!

I am having difficulty scanning Houston/Peach County P25 system. Macon/Bibb comes in loud and clear. I was able to scan them a few weeks ago (not a regular listener) but complete silence now. I have a Uniden BCD996T and used bcTool to download and program it with the freqs from RR. Did Houston/Peach change something? Thanks for any help!

Ok. I figured it out. My old set up had only the control channel entered. I was at my wits end trying to figure out what the deal was so I entered the remaining freqs into the system. Well Houston and Peach are loud and clear again! Thanks for the input!

Maxx
 
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